Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, כרך 6J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 |
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Addington Administration affair American answer appointment asked attend Barbour Baron Tuyl Boston Statesman Britain British Cabinet meeting Calhoun called candidate caucus charge Chargé d'Affaires claim Clay Colonel Commissioners committee concerning Convention conversation copy Crawford Cuba declared dispatch doubt draft duties Edwards election Emperor of Brazil enquire Executive favor Fayette France French friends Georgia give Government Governor Holy Alliance House of Representatives instructions Jackson James Barbour King La Fayette letter ment mentioned Minister morning National Intelligencer negotiation newspapers nomination o'clock object observed opinion paper paragraph party person piracy Plumer present President President's principle proposed question received right of search Rush Russian Secretary Senate sent session of Congress slave-trade South America South Carolina Southard Spain spoke Taylor thought tion to-morrow told Treasury treaty Treaty of Ghent United vessels Vice-President Virginia vote Webster Wirt wished yesterday York
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 23 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
עמוד 421 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
עמוד 323 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
עמוד 529 - And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
עמוד 132 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.
עמוד 464 - I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly...
עמוד 547 - ... for my friends. I can justify the refusal to adopt this policy only by the steadiness and consistency of my adhesion to my own. If I depart from this in one instance, I shall be called upon by my friends to do the same in many. An invidious and inquisitorial scrutiny into the personal dispositions of public officers will creep through the whole Union, and the most selfish and sordid passions will be kindled into activity to distort the conduct and misrepresent the feelings of men whose places...
עמוד 407 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
עמוד 501 - May the blessing of God rest upon the event of this day ! — the second Wednesday in February, when the election of a President of the United States for the term of four years, from the 4th of March next, was consummated.
עמוד 179 - Great Britain. It would be more candid, as well as more dignified, to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war.